Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-26
SOUTHERN GL.EANINGS.


ted twenty EIGHT dollars off the plumage
OF fourteen-year-old peasock.
Real estate transactions in two days at
Knoxville, Tenn, recently, aggregated
nearly $500, ,00O
| Robert Jones is on trial at Edgefield, N.
| C., for the murder in cotton-feld of Ed
ward Presley and his two sons, into whose
| family he had married.
| Robbers, few nights ago, forced the
-exszess messenger at Coleman, Tex, to
| open his safe, and they took the contents,
over s3, 000 and got away.
| In Irwin County, Ga, few days ago, n
horse was bitten on the nose by rattle
! snake. The animal was given several
| drinks of sweet milk and alum, and ther
three bottles of turpentine were heated
and the mouths of the bottles placed in
succession over the part bitten. 1t is said
! that the green poison could be plainly
seen as it was being drawn into the bot
| ties. The horse recovered.
| Mrs. L. L. Buffalo, wife of one Of the
] vealthiest cotton planters of Lonoke
| County, Ark, committed suicide a few
| days ago by taking laudanum. Reproof
| of her husband for letting sewing a
chine agent get the best of her in sew
iBg-machine trade is assigned as the cause
which led her to take her life without the
| slightest waraing to any one.
| The assassin Of Adam Carpenter, at
| Hustonville, KY, is believed to be his son
| Wallace, youth of nineteen, who made
| terrible threats year ago.
| Rev. j. R. Hamilton died at his residence
| in Nashville, Tenn, few days ago, aged
| seventy-nine years, after long illness.
| DR.. Hamilton joined the Tennessee Con-
| ference of the Methodist Church forty
| three years ago, and filled some of the
most important stations in the Confer
ence. For several years he had occupied
| supernumerary position.
| The drought committee appointed by
| the Legislature of Texas has distributed
| 100000 among q, $50 sufferers.
| The General Assembly of Virginia is
| holding an extra session, mainly to take
action regarding the State debt
d. Lynch Pringle, Of South Carolina,
has been appointed Consul General Of the
| United States at Constantinople.
The imported stallion King Ban, valued
at coo, died few days ago of spinal
meningitis at Lexington, Ky.
The Texas Senate recently passed bill
appropriatng 500 000 to furnish the new
| Capitol, and $4,000 to have the grounds
| graded and laid out.
| MARTA Gudger, wealthy farmer of Nc
| Minn County, Tenn, committed suicide
| few nights ago. He had invested in Fiori-
| da real estate, and lost a considerable sum
| II money in the transaction.
| The citizens of Rome, Ga, have sub
| scribed $3.50, 600 for the building of an iron
furnace and rolling mills, and for the
/ erection of an iron bridge over the Oos-
| tanaula river.
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A destructive fire occurred at Prattville,
Ala, few days ago. The residence Of
| Congressman T. W. Sadler was destroyed; :;
| also the residence of Mrs W. III. North
ingham. Sadler's loss is "a, 900; no insur
| ance Mrs. Northn gton's loss is 5000;
| insurance, ,0)0.
! Deputy United States Marshal Quinn
| of Shelby, N. c.. aided by posse, a few
nights since, captured blockade distil-
| lery on the very summit of Kings noun
! tain, which was operated by W. NJ Ray.
A large quantity OF beer and whisky was
| captured All Of the daring moonshiaer's
| escaped.
! VIM. c. Patton. North Carolinian, has
been appointed United States Consul at
| Bahia. and George C. Tanner, of South
| Carolina, goes as Consul to Pictou, Nova
| Scotia.
! DR.. T. G. Ford, who was sentenced to
! fifteen years Imprisonment for killing J.
| &. Kirkpatrick, has been pardonel by
| Governor McEnery of Louisiana, on the
| favorable recommendation of the State
| Board of Pardons.
| Earthquake shocks are still occasional
| visitors at Charleston, S. c., and vicinity.
In the face of cloudlcss skies and glar
| ing sun the people Of Abilere Tey., re-
Gently assembled in the Methodist Church
at that pace and prayed fervently for
rain.
l. T. d. jackson, a colored police officer at
| Memphis, has been dismissed from the
! force for miscegenation.
| The distillery of John G. Roach, at Un-
iontown, KY, was destroyed by fire few
I night ago, entailing loss of s35, 900. There
| is only 5000 insurance.
| Half of the business part of Blackville,
| s. c. and some dwellings were burned a
4 few days ago. Loss, nearly $l0l,0O; in
surance between one-thiri ard one-half Of
| the loss.
| Atam Paxton, of Lancaster County, S.
| G., veteran of the Mexican war, despair
| ing of receiving a pension, committed sui
eide few days ago, BY hanging himself
! to tree near his house.
The ceroner's jury at Morehead, KY,
| lOulQ ii NCIulCb VI oNtliCHbdl SHOObiHS
| the case Of John Trumbo, who shot Joha
! N. Witcher a few days ago while show ing
HIM that pistol could be used quicker
| than knife.
| jeff Stevenson, who was recently tried
| for wilful murder at Hopkinsville, KY,
was given twenty-one years in the State
| prison. Stevenson shot and killed Will
lam Calvin from ambush last August. The
| jury was in deliberation nearly four days
Five favored hanging.
| Julia Darrow, co,ored, one hundred and
| eight years old, supposed to be the Oldest
| woman in Kentucky, died a few ys ago.
| She was born in Montgomery County in
| ITO and was slave on the Colonel Sam
| mons farm. She remained there unit
| sold to her late husband at the age OF SIX
| teen for three hundred and fifty dollars
| She was the mother of seventeen children,
| three of whom survive her. She leaves
| considerable property.
Half OF the business portion OF OxIord
n. C., was wiped out bv fire few nights
ago, entailing loss of sl0)0o6, only about
hall Of which is covered By insurance.
The belief was general that the f1re was
the work OF incendiaries.